The Sun Years Vol. 2

MUSIC JERRY LEE LEWIS - The SUN years vol. 2 CD 41002

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GOOD GOLLY MISS MOLLY

BREATHLESS

LEWIS BOOGIE

COLD COLD HEART

CARRY ME BACK TO OLD VIRGINIA

FRANKIE & JOHNNY

MY BONNIE

SWEET LITTLE SIXTEEN
HELLO HELLO BABY
CRAZY ARMS

HIGH SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL
BE BOP A LULA

DRINKIN' W INE SPO-DEE-O-DEE

MY GIRL JOSEPHINE

GOOD NIGHT IRENE

LIMN’ LOVIN' WRECK

RAMBLIN' ROSE

IT’LL BE ME

YOUR LOVIN' WAYS

LITTLE QUEENIE

HANG UP MY ROCK’N’ROLL SHOES
DON’T DROP IT
UBANGI STOMP
MEAN WOMAN BLUES
WHAT’D I SAY

Total Playing time: 6r42”

This Compilation ©&® 2000 SAAR Sri

Licensed from SUN Entertainment Corporation.
Special thanks to Graham Johnson.

S Artwork by Marco Cambieri.
g Photos by courtesy of Joop Visser Productions.

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2000 - Manufactured
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1. GOOD GOLLY MISS MOLLY (Bumps Blackwell- John Marascalco) 2' 17"

2. BREATHLESS (Otis Blackwell) 2'41"

3. LEWIS BOOGIE (Jerry Lee Lewis) 1'58"

4. COLD COLD HEART (Hank Williams) 3'05"

5 . CARRY ME BACK TO OLD VIRGINIA

(Trad. Arr. Jerry Lee Lewis) 2'26"

6. FRANKIE & JOHNNY (Trad. Arr. Jerry Lee Lewis) 2'31"

7. MY BONNIE (Charles Pratt) 2’35"

8. SWEET LITTLE SIXTEEN (Chuck Berry) 2'31"

9. HELLO HELLO BABY (Trad. Arr. Jerry Lee Lewis) 3'2 1 "

10. CRAZY ARMS (Ralph Mooney-Charles Seals) 2'43"

1 1 . HIGH SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL (Ron Hargrave-Jerry Lee Lewis) 2'29"

12. BE BOP A LULA (Gene Vincent-Tex Davis) 2'26”

13. DRINKIN' WINE SPO-DEE-O-DEE (Stick McGhee-Mayo Williams) 2'33"

14. MY GIRL JOSEPHINE (Fats Domino-Dave Bartholomew) 1 '42”

15. GOOD NIGHT IRENE (Huddie Ledbetter) 2'52"

16. LIVIN' LOVIN’ WRECK (Otis Blackwell) 2'02"

17. RAMBLIN’ ROSE (Fred Burch-Marion Wilkin) 3T7”

18. IT’LL BE ME (Jack Clement) 2T3”

19. YOUR LOVIN' WAYS (Alton Harkins-Robert Chilton) 2’37”

20. LITTLE QUEENIE (Chuck Berry) 2'23”

21. HANG UP MY ROCK’N’ROLL SHOES (Chuck Willis) 2'34"

22. DON’T DROP IT (Terry Fell) 1’53"

23. UBANGI STOMP (Charles Underwood) 1'45"

24. MEAN WOMAN BLUES (Claude Demetrius) 2'23"

25. WHAT’D I SAY (Ray Charles) 2'25”

This Compilation © & ® 2000 SAAR Sri
MUSIC CD 41002
Licensed From Sun Entertainment Corporation

Total Playing time: 61’42"

An Original Sun Recording

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SAM PHILLIPS & THE SUN LEGEND

Samuel Cornelius Phillips was bom on January 5th 1923 in Florence, a small town situated in the
southern state of Alabama. He was the youngest of eight children and although he was raised in a
fairly well to do family, at the age of 1 8 he was obliged, following the death of his father, to abandon
high school and find himself a job in order to keep the rest of his family. He had intended to study law,
however the tough economical situation lead him instead into radio as an easier alternative where,
once settled in, his hidden musical loves, the blues, hillbilly and spirituals finally surfaced. During the
years that he worked in radio as an announcer, Sam also studied to become a recording engineer since
many of the shows at that time, were recorded on acetate discs, making a technical background
essential. After several years in radio and various moves, he finally decided to put the experience he
had acquired into practise and in January 1950 he opened up The Memphis Recording Service, a
small studio on the comer of Union and Marshall Avenue, in Memphis, Tennessee. His aim, he said,
was to record the blues and other music he liked, being convinced that the record market extended
much farther afield than just the local Memphis black population.

During the first years, Phillips, who had cast aside any plans to start up his own label and distribution,
having failed with his first attempt, prefered to concentrate his efforts on the creative side of the
business. He had already recorded, and been successful, with such artists as B.B. King, Ike Turner,
Rosco Gordon, Jackie Brenston and the great Howlin' Wolf and chose to sign his productions over to
more established labels such as the Chicago based Chess Records. Regretfully, as was so common in
the record industry at that time, his failure to successfully follow up on three national R& B hits
turned his relationship with Chess sour. Left with no other alternative as an outlet for his productions,
in 1952 he set up a new label SUN RECORDS.

The events and the artists that followed without doubt, form a fundamental part of the history of
popular music: Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Charlie
Rich not to forget the equally important Sonny Burgess, Warren Smith, Billy Lee Riley and the many
others who Phillips recorded within the mythical walls of his studio in 706 Union Avenue. Sam C.
Phillips, the founder of SUN Records envisioned it all. Without him there would have been no
rock'n'roll.

In July 1969, the SUN catalogue was bought by Shelby S. Singleton, a successful Louisiana
businessman and record producer who, with his brother John, must also be thanked for permitting this
historical label to be available still up to this day. Although the few recordings and rights to Sam
Philllips' most famous discovery, Elvis Presley, were sold to RCA in 1 955 and thus with great regret,
could not be included, this series nevertheless provides an extensive selection of those equally
important artists and their recordings who together, each in their own way, all contributed to creating
THE SUN LEGEND.

When Jerry Lee Lewis, barely turned twenty one, rolled up in front of the doors of the
Memphis Recording Service in November 1956 for an audition, Sam Phillips was on
vacation in Florida, so it was Sam's assistant, Jack Clement, who recorded the first
demos. When Phillips, who had for some time been wanting to get off the guitar scene,
heard the recordings he told Clements to “just get him here as fast as you can”.

Bom in the mral community of Ferriday, Louisiana on September 29th 1935 Jerry Lee
began playing piano at the age of nine. It's difficult not to believe that SUN records and
the young Jerry Lee were destined to come together. In time, they defined all that is best in
rock'n'roll with Jerry Lee being one of the first inductees in the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame
along with Elvis Presley and Sam Phillips. His early recordings at SUN exemplified the
virtue of simplicity and especially those made between 1956 and 1960 stand as some of
the most impressive recordings to emerge from that turbulent era - maybe the most
impressive.

When musicians sit around and talk about who was the wildest, both on stage and off, the
conversation usually turns at some point to Jerry Lee Lewis. In a profession marked by
greats, Lewis can lay claim to be among the greatest. Tortured by an unfathomable

religion, he has built a legend around himself that
eclipses mortal bounds. He is the self created
wild man defying the law and Inland Revenue
Service to take his possessions and tempting
every entertainer who fancies himself a
showman to follow him on stage.

In 1957, with Elvis just about to leave for the
army Jerry Lee was the hottest name in american
pop business however, during that Christmas,
Jerry secretly disappeared off to Hernando,
Mississippi to marry his thirteen year old cousin,
Myra Gale Brown. The marriage, his third
already, was kept so quiet that even his family
were unaware of the fact until much later. In the
six months that followed, the effect that this
event would have on his career was to prove
devastating.

1958 opened with a full date book, a tour with
Alan Freed, then Phillip Morris, Australia and
finally England. The Alan Freed tour kicked off
on March 28th and Jerry Lee's performances were
at their peek. With long curly blond hair and
pounding fingers he would dominate his
audience with the wildest stage show that has
made “The Killer” a rock'n'roll legend. It has
been said that he set fire to his piano when he
heard that he was to be followed on stage by
Chuck Berry.

After the Freed tour, Jerry flew to England with
his underage bride for a short promotion tour and
when he naively admitted that Myra was only
fourteen, the British press exploded in outrage

and tore him to pieces. Jerry was immediately taken off the tour and returned to the States
to discover his bookings were being cancelled, he was being blacklisted from radio and
the new Top 40 chart, and his record sales, without that vital promotion were plummeting.
During those gloomy years that followed, Jerry Lee still remained an attraction on stage
without having a record in the charts and he had to wait until 1961, when he recorded, in
Sun's new studio in Nashville, a re-make of the Ray Charles standard “Whafd I Say”
which, although only made N° 30 in the charts, gave him a new lease of life in SUN.
Nevertheless despite the various attempts Sam Phillips made to re-model his top artist,
success slipped away again and in 1963 Lewis signed with Mercury where he went on to

make himself a name as a country artist

Although Jerry Lee has often been compared to Little Richard, his vocal style and piano
playing clearly prove how they are so different. The magic ingredients of his classic SUN
recordings, the piano, Roland Janes on guitar and J. M. Van Eaton on drums provided that
hit formula that once again, Sam Phillips was there to capture.

During his career, Jerry Lee Lewis only scored four Top Twenty hits, all released during
his years at SUN however, the importance of his contribution to the story of rock'n'roll is
without doubt, unquestionable.

Good Golly Miss Molly - SUN 382 Recorded 7th Av.

Nashville Sept. '62. Released 5th Nov. Went to N° 3 1 in the
U.K.

Breathless - SUN 288 Recorded 706 Union Av.

Memphis Jan.'58. Released Feb. '58. The flipside of
“Down The Line”. Went to N° 7 in Billboard Hot
Hundred andN° 8 in U.K.

Lewis Boogie - SUN 301 Recorded 706 Union Av.

Memphis summer '57. Released June '58 as “B” side of
the novelty record “The Return Of Jerry Lee”.

Cold Cold Heart - SUN 364 Recorded T Av. Nashville
Feb '61. Released May 26th '61. Went to N° 22 in
Billboard Hot Country Singles.

Carry Me Back To Old Virginia - SUN 396 Recorded
639 Madison Av. Memphis Aug. '63. Released March
1 5th '65. One of the titles taken from his last SUN session.

Frankie & Johnny - SUNLP 1265 Recorded 706 Union Av. Memphis March '58.

My Bonnie - Not originally released as a single on SUN. Recorded 639 Madison Av.
Memphis '60.

Sweet Little Sixteen - SUN 379. Recorded 639 Madison Av. Memphis June '62. Released
July 7th '62. Another Chuck Berry standard. Went to N° 95 in Billboard Hot Hundred and
N° 38 in U.K.

Hello Hello Baby - SUNLP 1265. Recorded 706 Union Av. Memphis March '58.

Crazy Arms SUN 259. Recorded 706 Union Av. Memphis Nov. '56. Released Dec. 1st
'56.This was Jerry Lee's first release on SUN.

High School Confidential - SUN 296 Recorded 706 Union Av. Memphis Feb + April
'58(composite master of two takes). Released April 9th '58. From the film of the same
name. Went to N° 2 1 in Billboard Hot Hundred and N° 1 2 in U.K.

Be Bop A Lula - Not originally released as a single on Sun. Recorded 639 Madison Av.
Memphis June '62. The Gene Vincent classic.

Drinkin’ Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee - Not originally released as a single on SUN. Recorded
706 Union Av. Memphis Nov. '58.

My Girl Josephine - SUNLP 1265 Recorded 639 Madison Av. Memphis June '61 . Jerry
Lee retitled the Fats Domino original “Hello Josephine”.

Good Night Irene - SUNLP 1230 Recorded 706 Union Av. Memphis Late '56 of early '57
then overdubbed in April '58.

Livin’ Lovin’ Wreck - SUN 356 Recorded 7th Av. Nashville Feb. '61 . Released 27th Feb.
'6 1 .The flip side of “Whaf d I Say”.

Ramblin’ Rose - SUN374 Recorded 7th Av. Nashville Sept. '61 . Released 19th Jan. '62.

It’ll Be Me - SUN 267 Recorded 706 Union Av. Memphis Feb. '57. Released 15th March
'57. Originally Sam Phillips had chosen this title as the “A” side to “Whole Lotta Shakin'
Goin' On”.

Your Lovin’ Ways - Not originally released as a single on SUN. Recorded 639 Madison
Av. Memphis Aug. '63.

Little Queenie - SUN 330 Recorded 706 Union Av. Memphis May '59. Released 15th
Sept. '59. Another Chuck Berry great.

Hang Up My Rock'n’Roll Shoes - SUN 344 Recorded 639 Madison Av. Memphis June
'60. Released 1st Aug. '60.

Don't Drop It - Not originally released as single on SUN. Recorded 639 Madison Av.
Memphis Jan. '60.

Ubangi Stomp - SUNLP 1 230 Recorded 706 Union Av., Memphis summer '57.

Mean Woman Blues - SUN EPA 107 Recorded 706 Union Av. Memphis Sept. '57.
Originally recorded by Elvis and made a hit by Roy Orbison.

What'd I Say - SUN 356 Recorded 7th Av. Nashville Feb. '61. Released 27th Feb. '61.
Originally recorded and written by Ray Charles, Jerry Lee's version went to N° 30 in
Billboard Hot Hundred and N° 1 0 in U.K.

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